Musicians remember local venues that shaped their careers: the 1980s
For the Juno Awards 50th anniversary, CBC Ottawa has spoken to some past winners and nominees with ties to the national capital region about the venues that helped them hone their chops. Today we look at some of the clubs that shaped the scene in the 1980s.
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Singer Priscilla Wright said from Château Laurier s Canadian Grill in the 1980s, she could look out at a crowd and often see the proverbial who’s who of power and politics.(Ian Black/CBC)
Percy Casino Corbin was born in Athens, Texas, on June 2, 1888. He was the son of Edward Corbin and Priscilla Wright Corbin. He grew up on the family farm and received his early education in public schools in Athens and nearby Corsicana before enrolling in a private institution in El Paso in order to prepare for studying medicine. Corbin attended the medical school at Howard University, in Washington, D.C., for one year and then transferred to the Leonard School of Medicine at Shaw University, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He received an MD in 1911.
Corbin opened a medical practice in Salem, Virginia, with a roommate from medical school, but in 1913 he moved to the town of Pulaski. Settling there afforded him the opportunity to serve a rural community in need of medical care and also made good business sense, as there were no other African American doctors in the area. On October 31, 1914, he married Evelyn Carrie Linscom, an El Paso native who had also attended Shaw University. They
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